Samvel Karapetyan (businessman)


Samvel Karapetyan is a Russian billionaire businessman, the owner of the Tashir Group conglomerate.

Biography

Karapetyan graduated from the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1986. He moved to Russia in the 1990s and in 1997, he became the president of the Kaluga-based Kalugaglavsnab OAO, which provides logistics services. In 1999, he established the Tashir Group.
In 2020 he paid the part of the pledge for the release from custody of Robert Kocharian.

Personal life

He is married and has three children.
His brother, Karen, is a politician from the Republican Party of Armenia and a former Member of Parliament.
In 2011, Armenian President awarded Karapetyan with the Mesrop Mashtots Medal "for significant contribution to the promotion of national interests, long term and fruitful pro-Armenian activities, dedication to the development and advancement of the Republic of Armenia and provided services."
In November 2017, he was appointed the president of the football club FC Ararat Moscow.

Wealth

According to Forbes, his net worth in February 2015 was $4.0 billion. In March 2013 Karapetyan became the richest ethnic Armenian in the world, overtaking Armenian-American businessman Kirk Kerkorian.

Ties to Putin

In January 2018 Karapetyan was named by the US Treasury Department in the Putin list, consisting of 114 senior political figures and 96 oligarchs, all of whom rose to prominence under Russian President Vladimir Putin.